I opened my copy of the new Sports Illustrated Wednesday and there, in the Point After back page column space, was a column by a familiar face: Rhett Miller, lead singer of Dallas alt country kings The Old 97s. That Rhett Miller, I thought? Yes, that Rhett Miller. And he’s got a great story.

It’s about his grandfather, Giles Miller, who, as a 31-year-old ex-boxer, purchased the struggling New York Yanks franchise from the NFL, moved it to Dallas in 1952, and rechristened it The Dallas Texans. Giles Miller subsequently lost his shirt, as Rhett explains; the Texans won only one game that season, they played five games in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and Giles Miller, broke, had to surrender the team to the league commissioner once the Texans’ one season ended.

But Giles Miller’s true regret carried off the field. As Rhett Miller writes, “Cotton Bowl officials had coerced Pop into denying black fans access to the $3.60 grandstand seats, allowing them access only to the $1.80 end zone areas. The first preseason game was marred by overcrowding in those sections, and much of the local black community boycotted subsequent games…by going along with the racist ticketing policies, Pop went against his own beliefs.”

The whole column, which lives behind the SI subscription paywall in the digital world, is worth reading. The issue is on newsstands (are there still newsstands?) now.

ANDY TIMMONS BAND Rock. Performing the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, with film screening of 31 Days: The Beatles’ First American Tour. Jan. 12 at 7 p.m. at the Granada Theater, Dallas. $20-$35. granadatheater.com.